Four lo­cal men were ar­rest­ed and 15 Venezue­lan na­tion­als were de­tained dur­ing a se­ries of tar­get­ed an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions across the South­ern Di­vi­sion on Sat­ur­day. The co­or­di­nat­ed ex­er­cis­es, which spanned sev­er­al hours, tar­get­ed both drug of­fens­es and il­le­gal im­mi­gra­tion.

A sus­pend­ed Po­lice Con­sta­ble has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with al­le­ga­tions of kid­nap­ping and sex­u­al of­fences in­volv­ing a 20-year-old woman, fol­low­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­fused to com­ment on an al­leged plot in­volv­ing three promi­nent busi­ness per­sons to mur­der her and oth­er mem­bers of her gov­ern­ment.

Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed, 52 and his wife, Genevieve Hadeed, 42, have been de­tained as part of an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an al­leged con­spir­a­cy to mur­der, ac­cord­ing to search war­rants is­sued in their names and signed by High Court Mas­ter Va­lene Guer­ra-Abra­ham on June 24. How­ev­er, the doc­u­ments do not dis­close the iden­ti­ty of any in­tend­ed vic­tim or vic­tims.

The de­ten­tion of busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed, his wife, Genevieve Hadeed, and her aunt, Star Sab­ga, has drawn mixed re­ac­tions from econ­o­mists and se­cu­ri­ty ex­perts over whether the high-pro­file in­ves­ti­ga­tion could af­fect in­vestor con­fi­dence in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Of­fi­cers of elite in­ves­tiga­tive po­lice units, in­clud­ing the Spe­cial Branch and the Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit (SIU), are lead­ing en­quiries in­to al­le­ga­tions of a pur­port­ed con­spir­a­cy to com­mit mur­der, which led to the ar­rest of busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve Hadeed, po­lice sources claimed yes­ter­day.

Tara Bridge­mo­han was a kind moth­er who loved to cook and spend time with her fam­i­ly and neigh­bours. That is how rel­a­tives and friends want the 75-year-old re­mem­bered af­ter she was found dead while bound and gagged in­side her bed­room fol­low­ing an ap­par­ent home in­va­sion at her Has­sanali Trace South, Bar­rack­pore home.

A 15-year-old Cunu­pia boy is the coun­try’s lat­est road fa­tal­i­ty af­ter he was struck and killed by a car while rid­ing his fa­ther’s mo­tor­cy­cle yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Hun­dreds of res­i­dents in Corinth Hills, Ste Madeleine, were left with­out elec­tric­i­ty yes­ter­day morn­ing af­ter van­dals cut util­i­ty ca­bles, forc­ing house­holds to cope with heat, dis­rupt­ed rou­tines and the risk of food spoilage for hours.

It’s a phrase that stirs emo­tions in T&T—the one per cent, com­mon­ly as­so­ci­at­ed with the Syr­i­an-Lebanese com­mu­ni­ty.

As pub­lic de­bate con­tin­ues over the phrase “one per cent,” re­li­gious lead­ers are urg­ing cit­i­zens and pub­lic of­fi­cials to keep the con­ver­sa­tion ground­ed in law, fair­ness and re­spect for all groups in so­ci­ety.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) says that re­spond­ing to a Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion re­quest from Guardian Me­dia on the hir­ing prac­tices and a re­quest to dis­close the fig­ures and those who were hired over the last year is a breach of its pri­va­cy.